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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Women readers"”.
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Popular romance and the woman reader
… read popular texts. The first section discusses women readers and popular romance in a Western context, with special reference to an American study by Janice Radway, Reading the Romance, and the second looks at how similar issues might apply amongst African women readers. Part II is a textual …
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), and Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome (1584) highlights the various ways …
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The Reception of the Works of Contemporary Chinese Glam-Writers in Mainland China
… reading constituencies: literary critics, actual women readers, and participants on the glam-writers’ personal blogs. Drawing in part on western reception theory and reader-response criticism, this thesis focuses on the role of the reader in reading and interpreting the glam-writers’ works and …
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We Do Not See Things as They Are. We See Them as We Are. Fictional Point of View and Reader Response: An Empirical Exploration.
… the findings of two empirical studies into readers' responses to fictional point of view. The impetus for the research came from my complementary studies in stylistics and Women's Studies. On the one hand, stylisticians often argued that the use of an internal perspective invariably elicited …
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Blending Birth and Behavior: Masculine Representations of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Manners
… an overwhelming number of critics interested in women’s issues ranging from girls’ education to the marriage market. Yet, throughout all of the current scholarship, there still exists an apparent oversight, which leaves the male characters within this type of literature viewed, at best, as basic …
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Queen Victoria's Library: The Place of Reading and Writing in Victoria's Political Education, Self-Improvement and Self-Curation
… she is one of the most written-about historical women, this thesis is the first comprehensive study focused on her reading. This thesis argues that Victoria’s reading was one of the most notable and constant features of her life, and that it both reflected and shaped the events surrounding it. It …
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Feminist Re-Visioning And Women's Writing: The Second Wave's Effects On Katherine Anne Porter's Literary Legacy
… changed the canon by forcing the inclusion of women's expressions. As part of their efforts to counter networks of discrimination in common culture, second-wave feminists addressed literary representation to challenge institutional and informal reproduction of sexism. However, much like many …
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Gendered utopia : women in the Icarian experience, 1840-1898
… used in his utopia, especially those related to women. Icarians boasted that they had female doctors, surgeons, and priestesses. Everyone was able to choose a marriage partner without a dowry and were permitted divorce. Children of both sexes were educated equally, albeit in separate schools. …
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"To keep Christmas well": gender and consumerism in the Age of Industrialization
… industrialization altered Christmas and guided women’s participation in the holiday in select urban centers of England between 1840, the year Queen Victoria and Prince Albert marry, and 1861, the year Albert died. My goal is to produce a literary and historical comparison of the impact of …
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Spain on the Table: Cookbooks, Women, and Modernization, 1905-1933
… in a genre intended for the use of middle-class women in their homes.</p><p>Their writing in cookbooks, I posit, offered Pardo Bazán, Burgos, and Marañón the opportunity to address directly the middle-class female readers who stood at the nexus of their anxieties regarding Spain's modernization. …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… century as the sentimental purview of women readers, this research proposes that many of these epistolary novels serve as powerful markers in the gender wars of this era. While an overall sense of optimism pervaded Britain’s long-eighteenth century, people still grappled with …